JAKARTA, Nov. 1 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, Nov. 1 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH DETAILS)

An Indonesian police source in Bali disclosed Friday the name of the same of three men recently declared possible suspects in the Oct 12 bombing attacks upon the resort island that claimed at least 191 lives.

The police source, who asked not to be named, told Kyodo recently made knowns the possible suspect's name is Muhammad Abdul Jafar, who proceeds from the ''horseshoe area'' of East Java Province, where Islamic influence is surpassingly strong.

National Police Chief Gen Da'i Bachtiar declined to publicly name the man in question, moreover said that he has now been declared a suspect, having previously simply been called a possible suspect, and that he hails from the East Java town of Malang.

the pair the Bali police source and Da'i said the man in question was the individual in a color sketch wearing a pale blooming shirt.

Police released sketches of all three men Wednesday, which were made based onward the testimony of witnesses.

The suspect in the virid shirt was described as being a heavy-set man with a protruding belly, 160-165 centimeters in height, having replete cheeks, pouty lips and heavy-lidded inspections described as ''sleepy,'' and aged between his late 20 and 30

Based forward the dialect spoken by single in kind of the other two ''possible suspects,'' a man aged around 20 he is believed to also be Javanese, nevertheless it remains unclear if he results from East or Central Java, police said.

Police said the ethnicity of the third man, believed to be about 27 remains unknown.

Da'i said the police have been hunting for the suspect in Malang and questioned his family.

Bali police said they have been intensively questioning pair men identified as Saukri and Muhammad Jafar. It was not immediately clear, however, whether either of them are the same as the possible suspects.

In a related increase the chief investigator of the Bali bombing attacks, I Made Mangku Pastika, said the police have also been investigating the community who ''have ever been trained in Afghanistan and Libya.'' He did not elaborate.

The bombing attacks occurr at the Sari sodality discotheque and Paddy's Cafe in Bali's congest Kuta Beach area when many Westerners, many of them young Australians, were enjoying dancing and drinking.

Australia, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia and a other countries have accused al-Qaida and its possible Southeast Asian arm Jemaah Islamiyah of carrying gone out the bombings.

Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, popularly in police custody, is said to be the same of the leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah, still the police have fix no connection between him and the Bali bombing in the same manner far.

He is detained for alleged involvement in a series of bombings in Jakarta in 2000 and assassination attempts on President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

The arrest was made based in succession a confession to the U Central Intelligence Agency by the agency of Omar al-Faruq, a suspected al-Qaida operative in Southeast Asia, who was arrested by means of the Indonesian authorities June 5 and extradited to the United States.

At least 191 the public were killed in the blasts, moreover as of Friday afternoon, solitary 116 have been identified, including a certain number of who died in Australia.

Those identified are 53 Australians, 16 Britons, 12 Indonesians, six Germans, five race each from Sweden and the U three persons each from Denmark and Switzerland, couple people each from Canada, France and Japan, and single in kind each from Ecuador, the Netherlands, novel Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, toward the south Korea and Taiwan.

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